Poor performance as WAEC releases 2019 WASSCE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results for its 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)

The examninaton which is meant for private candidates held in January.

Announcing the results in Lagos on Tuesday, the Head of Nigeria National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Isaac Adenipekun, said out of 12,202 candidates that registered for the examination, 11,892 took part in the examination.

Of this number, only 3,102 candidates representing 26.08 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language and General Mathematics.

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8,782 of the candidates representing 75.15 per cent obtained credit and above in two subjects; 7,332 candidates representing 62.74 per cent obtained credit and above in three subjects; 5,850 candidates representing 50.06 per cent obtained credit and above in four subjects, and 4,314 candidates representing 36.28 per cent obtained credit and above in five subjects.

He added that results of 376 candidates, representing 3.16 per cent of the total candidates for the examination, are being withheld due to various cases of examination malpractice.

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